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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1964
Page
3
A Chicago firm reports West Virginia faces weaknesses in its budget system. It calls for a comprehensive budget that includes all receipts and disbursements across agencies and funds and urges an operational central accounting authority. The Board of Public Works must accept budget duties pending constitutional revision.
Robertson urged full board awareness of finances plans and programs of state agencies to enable intelligent highway budgeting. Sawyers praised the action and noted long standing practice of submitting road plans to the legislature and governor. The board plans an extended session Thursday for enlarged budget analysis.
A hunter discovered a decomposed male body Tuesday in dense woods of Wayne County. Coroner Virgil Mills will examine the remains Wednesday. Twine around the neck and an estimated six months since death were noted by sheriff deputies. The Port Ridge area near Cabell County was the location, near Crit Stender of Kenova.
The city board of zoning appeals reviews a variance petition by Dr. Lewis R. Flias for a new office building at 1416 Kanawha Blvd East adjacent to the City Bible Center. Firms considering tenancy include the International Business Machines Co local office now on Quarrier Street between Dunbar and Broad streets.
The 11th annual Creative Arts Festival Week will run April 25 with aims to boost state participation. Plans were discussed by board and committee members at a Morris Harvey College luncheon. Mrs. William B. Bright, a committee member and South Charleston Woman's Club president, urged organized groups statewide to join the event.
Richard J. Reynolds Jr., heir to a tobacco fortune and a former Winston-Salem mayor, died in Lucerne Switzerland at age 58. He moved to Lucerne after chronic emphysema, leaving behind four sons from his first marriage and two from his second, with a complex divorce history and a fourth wife at his side. The body will be cremated in Lucerne.
Jerome Henry Clark 84 died Tuesday at his daughter Myrtle Gray’s home 212% Lee St W Charleston after a long illness. A seven year Charleston resident, he was a retired timberman and UMW member. Survived by four daughters Ida Perdue Ruth Siligo Irene McIlhan and Sybil Boozenay, a son Ernest F., a sister Ada Smith, two brothers Frank and Leonard. Body at Bartlett Funeral Home in Charleston.
The Charleston Business and Professions Men will hold its final meeting of the year at 12:30 p.m. Thursday in the Mattie V. Lee Home on Donnally Street. Daylon Perry, director of the Minority Group Roster, will be their guest.
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The Ernest Kisamore family left eight strings of Christmas lights burning on their front porch at 4417 Venable Ave Monday night. Tuesday morning the lights were gone.
The West Virginia Civil Service System on Tuesday announced examinations to fill a showboat manager position a hospital chaplain at Huntington State Hospital and several nursing and nurse consultant posts Information and bulletins are available at local employment offices or by writing to Director West Virginia Civil Service System 112 California Ave Charleston WV 25305.
An 81 year old man buys a 150 foot long but six inch wide Manhattan lot at public auction for 25 dollars. Edward Horowitz, of Third Avenue and 50th Street, says he may sell to a neighbor or put a sign on the tiny corner plot. He admits he has never seen the site.
The power commission announced Columbia Gulf Transmission Co. seeks authority to expand its Louisa to Kentucky natural gas pipeline at an estimated cost of $22.6 million. The project would add facilities in Louisa Mississippi Tennessee and Kentucky to deliver more gas to affiliate United Fuel Gas Co. Protests or petitions to intervene must be filed by Jan. 4.
Joe Anania and co defendant Curtis Halley faced the unlawful pool room charge as Anania's temperature ran high. Judge William J Thompson postponed the trial after Dr Page Seckford reported a 101.9 degree fever and the health director testified about his condition.
Police charged 47 year old Headman May after his arrest near Pikeville for the shootings at the Hobson home in Harold. Abby Hobson Lula Hobson were killed. Ruth Ann May was hospitalized with gunshot wounds to both ankles after an argument with her husband.
Union Carbide and the Machinists Union must file briefs by December 29 as a possible election dispute moves toward a planned section at Carbide's South Charleston plant. The NLRB set the briefing deadline after a meeting. final election date will be set by the Ninth Region director once briefs are reviewed. Both sides may appeal.
Arthur Bryant of Cleveland Ohio was admitted to Charleston General Hospital Tuesday with second degree burns to his left side knee and arm after falling into a fire in a West Side wooded area. He is reported in satisfactory condition.
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